khodorko wrote:Do you guys think it would be reasonable/potentially successful to use NU/Duke offers to try and up a Penn offer?

Also, have any of you succeeded in renegotiating scholarship $$?

Imho, there's no harm in trying. The worst Penn can say is no. They won't take away your current scholarship offer for having the presumption to ask. I assume NU/Duke gave you more than Penn?

I want to ask for more $$ from UVA, but Cornell gave me the same amount and Georgetown has given me less. I don't have any acceptances from higher-ranked schools to use for leverage at this point, so UVA is actually the best offer both money- and rank-wise that I have. I don't know what else to say except please???

Yeah I figured it couldn't hurt to try and bring down the amount I'll be taking out in loans.

I talked to the Financial Aid guy from Penn because they gave me $0 merit (decent amount of financial-need based though) which seems baffling in comparison to the amounts I received from NU and Duke. I know they're slightly lower in the rankings but there's a huge disparity between their offers and 0...

khodorko wrote:Do you guys think it would be reasonable/potentially successful to use NU/Duke offers to try and up a Penn offer?

Also, have any of you succeeded in renegotiating scholarship $$?

Imho, there's no harm in trying. The worst Penn can say is no. They won't take away your current scholarship offer for having the presumption to ask. I assume NU/Duke gave you more than Penn?

I want to ask for more $$ from UVA, but Cornell gave me the same amount and Georgetown has given me less. I don't have any acceptances from higher-ranked schools to use for leverage at this point, so UVA is actually the best offer both money- and rank-wise that I have. I don't know what else to say except please???

Yeah I figured it couldn't hurt to try and bring down the amount I'll be taking out in loans.

I talked to the Financial Aid guy from Penn because they gave me $0 merit (decent amount of financial-need based though) which seems baffling in comparison to the amounts I received from NU and Duke. I know they're slightly lower in the rankings but there's a huge disparity between their offers and 0...

khodorko wrote:Yeah I figured it couldn't hurt to try and bring down the amount I'll be taking out in loans.

I talked to the Financial Aid guy from Penn because they gave me $0 merit (decent amount of financial-need based though) which seems baffling in comparison to the amounts I received from NU and Duke. I know they're slightly lower in the rankings but there's a huge disparity between their offers and 0...

Duke doesn't give give out need based aid. It is more useful to compare total gift aid than stressing over components of it. They could have give you the same amount in merit, but no need (like every other school).

That's awesome! I remember when we were anxiously biting our nails over CLS back in January. I never did hear back about my CLS decision, but it's nice to know that you're headed to Morningside Heights. Take good care of my alma mater for me!